The lama brought his thousand-wrinkled face once more a handsbreadth from the Englishman's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kim] Reference

The lama brought his thousand-wrinkled face once more a handsbreadth from the Englishman’s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kim] Reference

Murmur of surf against hull, a handsbreadth from his ear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evan Eisenberg: Mary Christ (Part 5)] Reference

A spot on the table a handsbreadth in diameter was charred.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Source of Magic]

His hands rested on the railing, a handsbreadth from her own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ship Of Destiny]

A handsbreadth from a sheer dropoff an empty table awaited them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The False Mirror]

He indicated a handsbreadth area in the western part of the county.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunting Fear]

A slime-covered, clawed hand slammed down a handsbreadth from his head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Unconquered]

I remained with my face a handsbreadth from the ground while he asked questions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wildfire] Reference

She decided to take the risk of widening the handsbreadth and applied a gentle pressure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Wall]

Then the medicine men raised the sun a handsbreadth in the air, but it was still too hot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myths and Legends of the Great Plains] Reference

She reached for the horned figure, but her fingers stopped, quivering, a handsbreadth awav.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Triumphant]

They roared and bellowed within a handsbreadth of each other as they confronted the travelers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of Felix Gunderson] Reference

He was at least a handsbreadth taller than Tarma had been, and correspondingly broader in the shoulders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oathbreaker]

It was less then two handsbreadth across, and the same in height, but it was an Eagle and it was theirs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Eagle]

Jim Kirk felt himself sliding along the rough surface of the cliff, off-balance, only a handsbreadth from the edge.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK] Reference

The woman's relatives had brought him to her bedside in Natseret, where she lay feverish, a handsbreadth from death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evan Eisenberg: Mary Christ (Part 6)] Reference

Nicholas thought of Miss Yoshida and he was as sad for this woman sitting not a handsbreadth away as he was for her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Miko]

Carefully Conan fit the length of the iron through a link of the chain a handsbreadth from the manacle on one wrist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Invincible]

She could see no more than the handsbreadth of the open door had to show — a section of wallpaper, curtains, coverlet, carpet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Wall]

When I got there it was standing a handsbreadth ajar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Key]

The sun was but a handsbreadth from the western edge of land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Indian Legends] Reference

Had I or another than I a handsbreadth of earth to my own, The.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II] Reference

A handsbreadth hence leaps up, laughs out as an angel crowned.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI] Reference

Say they are a false generation, and say a good archer told you so, who, with a fair aim, seldom missed a handsbreadth of the white.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waverley Novels — Volume 12] Reference

A fair aim, seldom missed a handsbreadth of the white.    From Wordnik.com.  [Castle Dangerous] Reference

Wow gold handsbreadth, had to eat the wine, narrate jokes.    From Wordnik.com.  [TiVo Community] Reference

With a handsbreadth to spare, they were free.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK] Reference

They set him down a handsbreadth from the cliff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evan Eisenberg: Mary Christ] Reference

From Scotch to Irish is but a handsbreadth.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of the Castaways] Reference

But on the sky, a handsbreadth in the west.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Breath of Life] Reference

Stands as it were a handsbreadth off, to give.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gloria Crucis addresses delivered in Lichfield Cathedral Holy Week and Good Friday, 1907] Reference

A handsbreadth taller even than Saul the king.    From Wordnik.com.  [Preludes 1921-1922] Reference

A handsbreadth.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of the Castaways] Reference